Sunflower

Opening a clamshell of berries and seeing them coated in fuzzy mold is a downer. And it's no small problem. Gray mold and other fungi, which cause fruit to rot, lead to significant economic losses and food waste. Now, researchers report in…

That oil can be reused at low temperatures for sauteing and making vegetables.With this reduction, the effective duty on refined edible oils now stands at 13.7 per cent and the effective duty on all major crude edible oils is 5.5 per…

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A worker walks atop a tanker wagon at an oil terminal on the outskirts of Kolkata on November 27, 2013. The Finance Ministry has exempted imports of crude soybean and sunflower oil from basic customs duty and agriculture infrastructure and…

Viral food pairings have often left the Internet in dismay. While bizarre food combinations continue to pop up every now and then, flowers have also jumped into the scene. Across the world, flowers signify many things - from representing…

It's the spines. This is the conclusion of two new papers, led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, showing that the spiny pollen from plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) both reduces infection of a common bee…

Despite its name, Sunflower is a citified brand with the kind of inherent tenacity more associated with the proverbial weed growing through a crack in concrete. Copenhagen, despite its idyllic aspects, is a capital with some grit, which is…

Shipments of sunflower oil to India have started normalising after imports from war-torn Ukraine resumed beginning September after a gap of four months, leading to further normalisation of supplies. Photograph: Shannon VanRaes/Reuters…

Scientists along the West Coast are calling for action to help sunflower sea stars, among the largest sea stars in the world, recover from catastrophic population declines. Experts say a sea star wasting disease epidemic that began in…

Last Thursday, guests clad in suits and gowns found themselves nestled within the Standard East Village’s NO BAR in the waning hours of the night. Fresh from the first-ever Sunflower Gala for Ukraine held at the Ukrainian Institute of…